Monday, May 4, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses an appeals court that blocked Biden’s abortion pill policy, a Kentucky judge who raised the definition of “human being” in abortion ban, and the end of Spirit Airlines.
Part I (00:13 – 10:20)
Appeals Court Blocks Biden Abortion Pill Policy: This Has Massive Implications , and It Reveals the Dividing Lines Over the Issue of Life
- Appeals court limits abortion pill access nationwide by The Washington Post (Rachel Roubein and Praveena Somasundaram)
- Democrats erupt over abortion pill block: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ by The Hill (Steff Danielle Thomas)
- A huge victory for life and for women’s health by WORLD Opinions
Kentucky Judge Raises Definition of “Human Being” in Abortion Ban: Kentucky Court Takes on Issues of Human Dignity and IVF
- Kentucky judge strikes down definition of ‘human being’ in abortion ban by Louisville Public Media (Sylvia Goodman and Joe Sanka)
Did Spirit Airlines Run Out of Spirit? No, the Budget Airline Ran Out of Money, With Big Lessons
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, May 4th, 2026. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | Absolutely massive news on the abortion front, several different fronts. |
| 0:17.0 | Most importantly, we go to New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 0:20.0 | We go to the Fifth Circuit. That is, |
| 0:22.0 | the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. And that is one of the U.S. courts of appeal that's |
| 0:27.7 | just short of the Supreme Court of the United States. A unanimous three-judge panel found that |
| 0:33.0 | the Biden administration's policy that allowed for the prescription of the abortion pill, |
| 0:37.9 | Mithopristone, and its delivery by mail, was not valid. |
| 0:42.8 | Precisely because the government had failed in its duty to make certain it was adequately |
| 0:47.0 | protecting women's health by allowing this policy. |
| 0:50.8 | The Washington Post reported the story this way, quote, |
| 0:53.6 | A federal's appeal court is |
| 0:55.2 | temporarily reinstating a requirement that abortion pills be picked up in person instead of sent |
| 1:01.0 | through the mail of victory for anti-abortion advocates that one of the drugs manufacturers |
| 1:05.1 | quickly sought to place on pause. Okay, so we're talking about a big class here. And it might not sound like that big an issue, |
| 1:13.6 | but I want to lay the landscape for understanding why it is so big. Number one, let's set the landscape. |
| 1:18.9 | Roe v. Wade was the U.S. decision that forced all 50 states to legalize abortion. You could even say |
| 1:25.0 | legalized abortion in all 50 states. That was in 1973. |
| 1:29.7 | And then you fast forward almost exactly 50 years, and you come to 2022, when the U.S. Supreme |
| 1:36.8 | Court reversed the Roe v. Wade decision in the decision known as Dobbs, the Dobbs decision. |
| 1:42.8 | Now, what that decision did was to strike down Roe v. |
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